microhouse

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ house, in the music sense coined by American journalist and DJ Philip Sherburne in 2001.[1]

Noun

microhouse (countable and uncountable, plural microhouses)

  1. (uncountable, music) A subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno. [from 2001]
    Synonym: (earlier) clickhouse
    • 2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, updated edition, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 626–627:
      And for the greater part of the noughties, the connoisseur consensus sound has been a German invention, microhouse—nowadays an unsatisfactory umbrella term for an increasingly diverging array of sub-styles, but originally a useful and era-defining concept coined by techno writer Philip Sherburne in 2001.
    • 2015 June 25, “Pop & Rock Listings for June 26-July 2”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Matthew Dear (Saturday) This experimental microhouse D.J. and producer channels Detroit techno in his reedy, subtly dystopian brushes of beats.
  2. (countable) Synonym of microhome.

References

  1. ^ Christoph Cox; Daniel Warner (2004), Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 319: “Writing for The Wire in 2001, Sherburne coined the term “Microhouse” to describe prominent minimalist tendencies in contemporary House and Techno.”

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